Waffle House Waitress Helps Customer, Goes Viral, Gets Scholarship : The Two-WayThe customer was on oxygen and had limited movement of his hands. Evoni Williams, 18, stepped in and a picture of the gesture took off.

So Williams leaned over the counter with a fork and a knife and cut up his ham for him.

It might have ended there, but a patron sitting behind Charpentier was struck enough to take a picture and post it to Facebook.

"I don't know her name but I heard this elderly man tell her his hands don't work too good," Laura Wolf wrote, describing how Williams stepped in. "If we could all be like this waitress & take time to offer a helping hand."

"I didn't know the photo was taken until a couple hours later," Williams told The Houston Chronicle. "When I saw it, it's just something I would do for anybody."

Wolf told KHOU, "It was so busy in here, and she actually took the time to stop and hear what he had to say instead of walking past him. That just meant something to me."

It apparently meant something to others too. As of Sunday, more than 130,000 people had reacted to the Facebook post and nearly 7,000 have shared it.